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...from Africa."The scrutiny just needs to be higher now," said Dr. Rade Vukmir, a spokesman for the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians.Duncan has been kept in isolation at the hospital since Sunday. He was listed in serious but stable...

SAN FRANCISCO - The young man stumbled into the emergency room late one night after a house party, saying his heart wouldn't stop pounding and he could barely breathe after downing liquor mixed with energy drinks.Emergency physician Steve Sun soon found the patient was so dehydrated he was going into kidney failure - one of many troubling cases Sun says he has treated in recent years tied to energy drink consumption.

...have difficulty providing guidance.Nationally, most emergency doctors reported in a survey by the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians that at least a quarter of their patients had gotten tests that could have been avoided with better access...

...minority aid. Clearing out the poor freed up room for insured (i.e., more lucrative) patients.The AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians (ACEP) blasted MichelleObamacare, expressing "grave concerns that the University of Chicago's policy...

...practices, and there are groups that can do that," said Gardner, who is also the vice president of the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians. Bruce said it is great to see another hospital come forward to treat trauma patients. "I think hospitals...

...Accidental choking kills nearly 4,000 men, women and children in the United States each year, the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians said. Learning how to prevent choking-related tragedy is the focus of National Heimlich Maneuver Week...

...hard time treating patients in the event of such an attack. And Dr. Joe Waeckerle, chairman of the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians' Dallas-based biological and chemical terrorism task force, said most hospitals have not taken adequate...

...who have lost health benefits. About 88 percent of the 1,200 doctors who answered a survey from the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians said they had patients who had been turned away elsewhere because they couldn't pay. (Federal law...

...probably catch on quickly," said Dr. Russell Harris, past president of the New Jersey chapter of the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians and chief of emergency medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J. "It's an...

...probably catch on quickly," said Dr. Russell Harris, past president of the New Jersey chapter of the AmericanCollegeofEmergencyPhysicians and chief of emergency medicine at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J. "It's an...